Girouard v. Skyline Steel, Inc.

OPINION

KESSLER, Judge.

¶ 1 In this case we are called upon to determine whether evidence of the manner of a decedent’s death is admissible on the issue of damages in a wrongful death claim. We hold that such evidence is admissible, but only insofar as it is relevant to the survivor’s own mental anguish resulting from the death and not the suffering of the decedent prior to death.

¶ 2 Plaintiff-Appellant Theodor J. Gir-ouard III (“Girouard”) appeals the superior court’s entry of judgment in his wrongful death action, filed after the death of his son, Nicholas D. Girouard (“the decedent”).…